Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
YASMIN MOGAHEDAs Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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